Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Drew Rangers baseball

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The result was redirect to Drew_University#Athletics. Black Kite (talk) 20:46, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Drew Rangers baseball[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG. It is a Division III college baseball team with questionable notability (I couldn't find anything on Google worth using to defend this program). The consensus on college sports teams is that Division I programs in football, basketball and baseball are more/less inherently notable, but any division below that must prove their notability, and this one doesn't. Jrcla2 (talk) 20:36, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Agreed on the GNG interpretation of Division II and III athletic teams (though in my opinion programs as a whole, say, Drew Rangers, are notable). I'd also throw men's hockey into the mix of inherently notable Division I programs, though the scope of that sport is certainly more limited. Kithira (talk) 22:25, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Drew University has a number of Division III sport teams, and none of them other than baseball have their own article. I don't really think that the Drew University baseball team meets Wikipedia's notability standards.Debbie W. 12:13, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:58, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:59, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/Redirect to Drew_University#Athletics, which could use expansion. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 21:47, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Drew_University#Athletics, as proposed by HBWS, seems to make sense. Rlendog (talk) 20:01, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to Drew_University#Athletics per DebbieW. Article not notable enough per WP:GNG to merge. Bzweebl (talk) 22:23, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's not a valid option: see WP:MAD. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 15:28, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - That is actually a very valid option. Bzweebl has not indicated that merging is being advocated so there is no attribution history to worry about. -- Whpq (talk) 20:55, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to the Drew University Athletics section. -- Whpq (talk) 21:06, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. If we had a Drew Rangers article I'd support a merge to there, but adding it in to the main uni article I'm not a fan of. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 22:24, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that merger is a bad idea. Based on limited coverage of athletics in the current Drew University article, merger will give an undue weight to baseball over other sports at Drew University.Debbie W.

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